absolutely essential knowledge on Free BSD (probably open and net too) Stuck as root in a shell thats not bash, with the only way to change it to use chsh, which opens the default $EDITOR which is vi, which you don't even know how to exit (theres always alt-f2 killall vi :-)
Then there was the time I tried to change the shell by hand in /etc/passwd, forgetting that BSD puts bash somewhere in /usr/local not /bin, meaning root had no shell at all. ARRRGGHHHHH steep curve to learn, but an education! On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:49:48 +1300 Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 09:21 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > > all you need to know how to do is a simple edit and successfully write > > the file and exit. > Agreed. I know enough vi to get a Debian box to the point that it can > install XEmacs from the network :) The Rute manual has a section on vi: > > http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node9.html.gz#SECTION00910000000000000000 > > -- > Michael JasonSmith http://www.ldots.org/ > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
